I'M FUCKING DONE

[luka]

When you visit you inject desperately needed money into the economy

This is a classic battle of sentimentality vs practical reality

I wouldn't inject very much, realistically.

 

[luka]

And I don't feel so very charitable that I would go somewhere just to 'inject' them with cash

 

[Clinamenic]

I wouldn't inject very much, realistically.

Visit when you're a STX millionaire.

 

[Clinamenic]

Actually you'll have NYCCoin too. You may arrive upon some favorable treatment.

 

[luka]

look forward to swanning about like I own the place, scattering dollar bills from my bulletproof limousine

 

[Clinamenic]

The Limey x Coming to America

 

[Clinamenic]

 

[Murphy]

vs

 

[Mr. Tea]

All my cousins are kiwis and once they set up camp on your couch you can't get rid of them. It's horrible. Freeloading cunts.

We had an Australian once, in the last shared London house I lived in. And I say that deliberately in the same way you might say you had a rat, or cockroaches. Fucker just camped out in our living room for weeks, might even have been a whole month.

Of course, he was friends with, and a compatriot of, one of the people who legitimately lived there, so the rest of us just sort of grumbled but felt unable to suggest to her that her mate might like to think about fucking off after a stay of a reasonable, non-pisstaking duration.

 

[luka]

Ring any bells @craner ?!!

 

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Ring any bells @craner ?!!

OMG

 

[Clinamenic]

Ring any bells @craner ?!!

Is craner a freeloading cockroach and/or rat?

 

[luka]

No he is not!

 

[Clinamenic]

Cool just checking.

 

[Clinamenic]

Freeloading would be too oblique a form of sadism for ol' pinhead.

 

[version]

I agree retail is done, which is why the question has arisen. And I don't think it's a huge cultural loss either (albeit people were sentimental about record shops) but it does pose the question of what happens to the space. The street is the foundation of democracy, there has to be that shared space that gives us a connection to what is happening to our country, we have to see all the representative types out and about in it, milling around, we have to see the state of the infrastructure etc

Some people think democracy itself is on the way out anyway, if we ever really had it.

 

[entertainment]

I don't want to make it sound transactional or mercenary but, hand in hand with that, there is a slight expectation that, should I find myself in... I dunno, Denmark let's say, then, I would hope to meet up with @entertainment (just picking on you at random here sorry) for a beer.

i'd be delighted!

 

[Clinamenic]

Some people think democracy itself is on the way out anyway, if we ever really had it.

It also seems like there may be something of a subtle power transfer from the citizen qua voter to the citizen qua consumer, as a unitary determinant of market activity.

 

[Clinamenic]

But the consumer's power would largely be predicated on competition, and snuffed by monopoly. The power to choose between two different products that are owned by the same entity, i.e. boil down to the same interests, would seem to render consumer leverage all the more irrelevant.

 

[luka]

A Passion For Denmark.

this forum is teeming with Danes. What do we know about them?

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